Macbeth fails to leave the murder weapon in the room where Duncan's body lies. He was supposed to kill Duncan with the daggers belonging to Duncan's chamberlains, smear Duncan's blood all over these servants, and then leave the daggers there so it would look like the grooms actually committed the murder. Lady Macbeth purposefully got them very drunk the night before, as well as slipped them some kind of drug in their drink, with the hope that they would be so drunk that they would pass out and have no recollection of the night (and would not wake if they heard Duncan make noise as he was being killed). In his panic and fear, however, Macbeth brought the daggers from the room and then refused to return them; Lady Macbeth must do it herself.
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